Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 131
Thy yearning and longing will increase, thy desire will grow more stormy, the tree itself will be as a prison to thee, thou wilt quit thy cell and give up thy nature to fly out and mingle among men.
Who acts: yearning, desire, tree, thou, Thy · What happens: increase, grow, be, quit, give up, fly out · To what, where: cell, nature
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yearning, desire, tree, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 yearning | nmod:poss |
| 2 | yearning | yearning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 increase | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 longing | cc |
| 4 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 yearning | conj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 increase | aux |
| 6 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grow | punct |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 desire | nmod:poss |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grow | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 grow | aux |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 increase | conj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 stormy | advmod |
| 13 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grow | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 prison | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prison | nsubj |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 prison | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 prison | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 prison | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 prison | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 prison | det |
| 22 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grow | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 prison | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 quit | punct |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 quit | nsubj |
| 27 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 28 quit | aux |
| 28 | quit | quit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 increase | parataxis |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 cell | nmod:poss |
| 30 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 quit | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 give | cc |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 quit | conj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 give | compound:prt |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 nature | nmod:poss |
| 35 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 fly | mark |
| 37 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 give | advcl |
| 38 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 fly | compound:prt |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 mingle | cc |
| 40 | mingle | mingle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 fly | conj |
| 41 | among | among | ADP | _ | 42 men | case |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 mingle | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 increase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | future | Thy yearning and longing | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | grow | future | thy desire | stormy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | future | the tree | as a prison; to thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | quit | future | thou | thy cell | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Source | ||||
| 5 | give up | infinitive | thou not said here | thy nature | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Source | ||||
| 6 | fly out | to-infinitive | thou not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | mingle | infinitive | thou not said here | among men | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | yearn | Thy | nom yearning «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | desire | thy | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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